Nathaniel Branden Quotes

The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.

If you don't accept yourself, you won't live fully, and if you don't live fully you'll need to get full some other way.

I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll be a great actress.

Of all the judgments you make in life, none is as important as the one you make about yourself. The difference between low self-esteem and high self-esteem is the difference between passivity and action, between failure and success.

I get literally a physical sensation of low self-esteem that is a result of not engaging the world and getting comfortable that way.

True self-love and social are the same.

If you feel inadequate to face challenges, unworthy of love or respect, untitled to happiness, and fear assertive thought, wants, or needs- if you lack basic self trust, self-respect, and self-confidence- your self-esteem deficiency will limit you, no matter what other assets you possess.

I have to introduce the part of me that feels like a winner to the part of me convinced I’m a loser, and see if they can’t agree to exist somewhere closer to the middle.

The solution to low self-esteem is to get over yourself and get a higher purpose.

Most women are starving to receive something from a man that they need to give to themselves.

The most important opinion you'll ever have is the one you hold of yourself.

Lack of self-worth is the fundamental source of all emotional pain. A feeling of insecurity, unworthiness and lack of valueis the core experience of powerlessness.

I'm not motivated by money or power or fame. In the end, it doesn't bring much happiness. The only thing that is driving me is self-satisfaction, self-validation.

I am happy with the roles I play.

But a sense of - in old-fashioned speak - 'I am OK, I do deserve to be here, I can do what I want to do, I can be myself, I can express myself' is really important as you go into the working world.

If you can be yourself and people like you, you're golden.

True success will come when you have the courage to be yourself.

There is nothing I need so much as nourishment for my Self Esteem

As you get older, it's always a process of self-love, learning how to really do that for yourself instead of trying to find it outside yourself.

We should teach, particularly ourselves, that nobody is a nobody. We are someone, and with God's help we can accomplish all things.

To grow in our ability to love ourselves we need to receive love as well.

When you have more respect for yourself and put yourself in a position where you feel your sense of value or worth, that's how you know you're on the right path.

Of all the judgments we pass in life, none is more important than the judgment we pass on ourselves.

it follows that if you aren't happy with yourself, you won't be happy with others.

Self-esteem is the goddamn root of all evil.